Tracy Idell Hamilton: Performing confusion

The City Council decided last week to hold off on a vote to recommend the Municipal Auditorium as its preferred site for a performing arts center, to allow the public time to comment. Probably a good idea.

They did just that this afternoon, offering more heat than light as several insisted that the council was putting the cart before the horse, and that the process wasn’t public enough.

That probably hurt the feelings of the 75 members of the public who’ve been toiling many hours a week since last summer — in public meetings — to create plans for the as-yet-unvoted-for venue tax extension.

Now, had there been a chupacabra involved, the local television “news” might have gotten in on the action. Sadly, only your hardworking daily newspaper reporter has consistently covered said meetings — and not a chupacabra in sight.

Councilwoman Lourdes Galvan, who made a pitch for the Lone Star Brewery property last week, tried this week to get the council to table the issue for 45 days — perhaps to track down the new owners of the property and see if they’d give it up?

Doesn’t matter; her motion didn’t even get a second. And certainly not the enthusiastic second Mary Alice Cisnero’s motion to endorse the Municipal got from Diane Cibrian, who shot out “second!” before Cisneros even finished talking.

Let the record reflect that the councilwoman REALLY supports the performing arts center.